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The Giving Tree.

New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1964.

Later printing of this classic work. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Boldly signed by Shel Silverstein with an original drawing on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-144497

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von Mises, Ludwig

Bureaucracy.

London: William Hodge & Company, 1945.

First edition of this early work by von Mises. Small octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Ludwig von Mises on the title page. Near fine in a original price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing....

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-145921

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1903.

Autograph Centenary edition with a double sided manuscript in Emerson’s hand bound into volume one. Octavo, 12 volumes, bound in three quarters contemporary morocco over cloth, elaborately gilt-decora...

$7,000.00 Item Number: RRB-104898

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Woolf, Virginia

On Being Ill.

London: Hogarth Press, 1930.

Signed limited first book edition of this meditation on the literary possibilities of illness, number 54 of 250 copies signed by Woolf in her characteristic purple ink. Octavo, original half vellum an...

$7,000.00 Item Number: RRB-143661

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Earhart, Amelia

The Fun of It.

New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932.

First edition of Earhart’s account of her childhood, her fascination with aviation, and her life through her 1932 flight across the Atlantic. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated throughout, with...

$7,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149914

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Carret, Philip L

The Art of Speculation.

New York: Barron's, 1927.

First edition of the Wall Street legend’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to his mother in the year of publication,...

$6,800.00 Item Number: RRB-90564

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McCarthy, Cormac [Chip Kidd]

The Road.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

First edition of McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a post-apocalyptic world, a work of “stunning, savage beauty,” adapted to the screen in 2009 starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron. O...

$6,800.00 Item Number: RRB-152031

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Ellison, Ralph

Invisible Man.

New York: Random House, 1952.

First edition of the author’s landmark first novel, which went on to win the National Book Award. Octavo, original black and tan cloth. Boldly signed by the author in the year of publication on...

$6,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146053

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Galbraith, Robert [J.K. Rowling]

Cormoran Strike Series: Lethal White, Troubled Blood, The Ink Black Heart, The Running Grave.

London: Sphere, 2018-2023.

First editions of the fourth to seventh novels in the Cormoran Strike series, written by J. K. Rowling and published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Octavo, four volumes, original cloth. Signed...

$6,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148833

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Roosevelt, Eleanor [Mrs. Franklin D, Roosevelt]

A Trip to Washington with Bobby and Betty.

New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1935.

First edition of this early work by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Sara with love fr...

$6,800.00 Item Number: RRB-139001

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Ralph Waldo Emerson Signed Carte-de-Visite.

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Carte-de-visite of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Boldly signed by Ralph Waldo Emerson below the photograph. In near fine condition. Matted and framed. Rare.

$6,800.00 Item Number: RRB-67039

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Wallace, David Foster

The Broom of the System.

New York: The Viking Press, 1987.

First edition of the author’s first book, which had an initial print run of only 1300 copies. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by David Foster Wallace on the front free endpaper and wi...

$6,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151589

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Fischer, Bobby

Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess.

New York: Basic Systems, 1966.

First edition of this definitive work on how to play chess. Octavo, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Bobby Fischer on the front free endpaper. In very good conditi...

$6,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146074

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Hayek, Friedrich August von [F.A.]

Individualismus und Wirtschaftliche Ordnung [Individualism and Economic Order].

Erlenbach-Zurich: Eugen Rentsch Verlag, 1952.

First German edition of this collection of economic essays rejecting socialism in favor of true individualism. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by F.A. Hayek on the front free endpaper. Near fine...

$6,800.00 Item Number: RRB-3468

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Friedman, Milton; With the Assistance of Rose Friedman

Capitalism And Freedom.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962.

First edition of Friedman’s magnum opus. Octavo, original blue cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear with a laid in signature of Milton Friedman. Housed in a custom half mo...

$6,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148398

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Smith, Samuel Francis

Autograph Transcription Signed of My Country ‘Tis of Thee.

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Autograph transcription of the first four stanzas of the American patriotic song My Country ‘Tis of Thee, which served as one of the de facto national anthems of the United States before the off...

$6,800.00 Item Number: RRB-82414

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Irving, Washington [William T. Sherman]

A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada: From the MSS. of Fray Antonio Agapida.

Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1842.

General William T. Sherman’s copy of this romanticized historical narrative. Octavo, bound in full dark green calf with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, all...

$6,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149597

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Rothbard, Murray N

America’s Great Depression.

New York: MacMillan Company, 1973.

First edition of Rothbard’s classic treatise on the 1930s Great Depression and its root causes. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Murray N. Rothbard on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust j...

$6,800.00 Item Number: RRB-23068

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Abbott, Berenice

Changing New York.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1939.

First edition stated on copyright page; first issue with blue topstain of Abbott’s landmark work on New York. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with 97 halftone plates that display “the...

$6,800.00 Item Number: RRB-57048

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Kahneman, Daniel

Attention and Effort.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1973.

First edition of the Nobel laureate’s influential first book, which claimed that attention can be identified with effort, cemented the association as a research paradigm in the cognitive science...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148161

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Baldwin, James

Just Above My Head.

New York: The Dial Press, 1979.

First edition of the last novel published in Baldwin’s lifetime. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the dedication page, “for my beloved David Adams Leemi...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-129068

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Ferrari, Enzo

Piloti, Che Gente…

Modena: Privately Printed, 1983.

First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work by the legendary Enzo Ferrari. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed and dated by Enzo Ferrari and Jlegendary dr...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152222

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Wiener, Norbert

The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Larta Blanca Norbert Wiener.” Near fine in a very goo...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-142006

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Miller, Henry

Tropic of Capricorn.

Paris: Obelisk Press, 1939.

First edition, one of only 1000 copies printed in Paris, to avoid obscenity laws in the United States. Octavo, original red and white wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-110655

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